Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kāp

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Turkic

Etymology

Compare to Proto-Mongolic *kabtaga(n) (“sack”). Do not confuse with *kap- (“to close”).

Noun

*kāp

sack

Derived terms

*kāpsa- (“to include”)
*kāpla- (“to cover”)
- *kāplama (“covering, coating”)
*kāpa- (“to surround”)
*kāplïg
*kāpsïŕ

Descendants

Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?]
  - Azerbaijani: qap
  - Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (qap)
    - Gagauz: kap
    - Turkish: kap
- Turkmen: gāp
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (qap)
  - Uyghur: [script needed] (qap)
  - Uzbek: qop
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: ҡап (qap)
  - Tatar: [script needed] (qap)
- West-Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: qap
  - Kumyk: [script needed] (qap)
  - Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (qap)
  - Karaim: [script needed] (qap)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Karakalpak: qap
    - Kazakh: қап (qap)
    - Nogai: [script needed] (qap)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: кап (qap)
    - Southern Altai: кап (kap)
Siberian:
- Old Uyghur: ‬
  - Western Yugur: qap
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: [script needed] (qap)
    - Tofa: [script needed] (qap)
  - Yenisei:
    - Shor: [script needed] (qap)
    - Khakas: [script needed] (xap)

References

Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Kāp”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill